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Beneath the Same Roof

An intense, steamy forbidden romance

When Ava Monroe’s mother remarries into wealth, Ava’s world turns upside down — and so does her carefully guarded heart. Forced to live under the same roof as her enigmatic stepbrother Julian Hart, she’s thrust into a world of polished surfaces hiding raw, tangled emotions.

Julian is a man ruled by control and silence, a brooding enigma who keeps everyone at arm’s length — until Ava. Beneath his cold exterior lies a storm of desire and vulnerability that threatens to unravel them both.

As days bleed into nights filled with stolen glances, charged silences, and forbidden touches, Ava and Julian are drawn into a dangerous game of craving and restraint. Every secret moment deepens the connection neither wants to admit — but the consequences of crossing the line are devastating.

In a mansion built on power and expectation, can two broken souls risk everything for a love that should never exist? Or will the walls they live beneath become the cage that traps them forever.

BENEATH THE SAME ROOF

This is where personal dreams and public legacy collide. Ava and Julian are offered the world… but only if they compromise their truth. And just when everything feels like it might be taken again — Julian changes the story himself, with a proposal that's far from picture-perfect… but completely, intimately real.

📖 Chapter 27 – Rewrite the Ending

Themes: Integrity vs. success, artistic control, raw proposal, redefining happily ever after

PART 1: THE NETFLIX MEETING (POV: Ava)

We flew to LA two days later. A black car. A waiting room with too-white walls. Cold sparkling water. Polished smiles.

The Netflix exec leaned forward, pressing her palms together.

> "Your story is explosive. Complicated. People will watch it. But we'll need to make a few adjustments for broader appeal."

"Well, for example — the age you met. Maybe you were both college-aged. And instead of step-siblings, perhaps you were just childhood family friends. The step label makes things messy."

"Let me be clear. The mess is the story. The shame, the risk, the way we bled to survive it — that's the truth. If you take that out, you're not adapting our lives. You're adapting your comfort."

"We didn't survive hell just to watch Hollywood bleach it."

"You're turning down seven figures?"

PART 2: THE PROPOSAL (POV: Julian)

We walked out of the office into bright, reckless sun.

Ava ripped off her heels, barefoot on LA pavement.

"God, that felt good," she said, laughing — wild and raw and free.

I looked at her — wind in her hair, cheeks flushed, eyes storming.

> There's nothing the world could give me that's worth more than this woman standing beside me.

I didn't have a ring. Didn't have a speech.

But I had every scar she gave me — and every breath I'd fought for just to stay in her orbit.

People stopped. Cars slowed. None of it mattered.

She froze. Hands pressed to her lips.

"I don't want a storybook ending. I want our ending. The bruised, bold, unapologetic kind."

I pulled out the one thing I had — the pressed boarding pass from the first time we flew to New York together. I'd kept it in my wallet for years.

"Let's write the rest without edits."

Because this wasn't about hierarchy.

This wasn't about him asking and me accepting.

We kissed in the street while people clapped and horns blared and the whole world blurred.

> And for the first time since our secret broke — we weren't hiding.

Back in the hotel, Julian wraps his arms around Ava from behind as they look out over the city.

"We said no to Netflix," she murmurs.

"We said yes to forever," he answers.

A soft knock at the door interrupts them.

> "I'm with an independent production house. We don't want to rewrite your story. We want to tell it exactly as you lived it. Raw, real, and beautifully f**ked up."

"We might have just found the right platform."

chapter 27.